Comfort - Mortise & Tenon Bench Top Bench

I built this Bench Top Bench using mortise & tenon joinery (my first M&T work ever) for the legs, aprons, feet, and stretchers. I made a template and routed in the hardware for the vice. I used biscuit joinery for the top and to attach the vice to the top. As you can see in the final picture I’m standing straight up while performing a routing task at a comfortable level.

-- -- "Never underestimate the power of a kind word, a good deed, or a table saw."

Being 6’8” tall, I love this idea. You could even come up with a way to permanently insert dowels into the legs of the top bench and then just drop them into the existing bench’s “bench-dog holes” for quicker set up and removal.

-- Directions are just the Manufacturer's opinion on how something should be assembled. ----Mike, Waukesha, WI

Sometimes you just get lucky. The Bench Top Bench lined up well enough to put 3 oak wood dowels in the current holes for my bench dogs from my work bench.

The bench top bench now fits securely on my workbench without clamps. I personally THANK YOU ohwoodeye for your most outstanding suggestion to make this project better. Lunberjocks makes me a better woodworker.

-- -- "Never underestimate the power of a kind word, a good deed, or a table saw."